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Thread #60977   Message #983458
Posted By: Rapparee
14-Jul-03 - 09:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
Subject: RE: BS: Meet The Giant Squid!
Better post a song to this thread, let's see.

It's a long way to calamari

No, I don't think so. Hmmmmm...start with the last verse and work backwards?

Over the river and through the woods
Now calamari I spy
Hurrah for the fun is the squiddy done
Hurrah for the

No. Just no.

Spermataphores in the sunset

Nope.

Title first..."Squid friggin' grou.." ah, no. A plaintive love ballad, maybe.

Today, while the blossoms still cling to the vine
I'll suck on your tentacles, I'll

NOPE. The imagery is, well, disturbing. Maybe write a poem and then worry about the music.

Once upon a foredeck dreary, while I traipsed around weak and weary
Seasick, trying to find the old head door,
Suddenly there came a rapping, rapping, rapping, rapping, rapping

Wait, this things got ten legs. Besides, I don't do rap.

Thou still unravished squid of...no.

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er goats and kids
When suddenly I saw a crowd
A host of rotten giant squids.

Probably not, no.

It's advertised in Boston, New York and Buffalo,
Five hundred hearty sailor lads a-squiddin' for to go.

Maybe there's good reason why the music, songs, and poetry of the giant squid is sparse.

No, wait!!

Archi, architeuthis,
King of the Sea Frontier!

Born just a larva in the briny deep
Survived on fish and things that creep

This is IT!! Now if someone will finish it, and Disney doesn't sue over "The Ballad Of Davy Crockett"....